♨ OT, what is this symbol?

I think it is a cow pat ♨
apperently unicode because it works on my limited Android browser
in fact I got it from an Android friendly character map app.
not on the Wikipedia unicode list and Google search gets no results
but maybe now it will since I posted it on the forum.
could prove handy for re- finding stuff!
♨♨♨♨

yeah, that is a bishop
got all the chess pieces
♔♕♖♗♘♙♚♛♜♝♞♟
the cards
♤♡♢♧♠♥♦♣
die faces
⚀⚁⚂⚃⚄⚅
and more
シッツ
☆★○●◎◯◐◑⊕⊗⊙◇◆ ◈◊◀◁▼
▽▲△▩▨▧▦▥▤▣■ □▷▶◢◣◤◥※♨♯
♭♪♬✓✔✕✖✘✧
add them to the smileys in your siglines and create an image like dire bunny did with punctuation!!!

yeah, that is a bishop
got all the chess pieces
♔♕♖♗♘♙♚♛♜♝♞♟
the cards
♤♡♢♧♠♥♦♣
die faces
⚀⚁⚂⚃⚄⚅
and more
シッツ
☆★○●◎◯◐◑⊕⊗⊙◇◆ ◈◊◀◁▼
▽▲△▩▨▧▦▥▤▣■ □▷▶◢◣◤◥※♨♯
♭♪♬✓✔✕✖✘✧
add them to the smileys in your siglines and create an image like dire bunny did with punctuation!!!

I was curious, so despite the answer coming from a couple of nice people above, I went digging too. Unfortunately that page and Google seem to be unable to recognize the character itself in a search string. Would be nice if you could just copy & paste for a search. Windows Character Map also got me nowhere. Searching on Google for "hot springs," however, does pull up plenty of pics.

unicodinator.com confirms that Unicode character 2668, ♨, is indeed called Hot Springs. Gotta scroll way down a third of the VERY long page to the Miscellaneous Symbols section...or as I just found out, type 2668 (once you know it) into the search box, but it's there. The others that came up above are likely in the same area.

Unicode is massive. The list of characters supported in the system goes up to hexidecimal FFFFFF, or 16777215 in decimal. 16.7 million characters...kinda scary. I remember the Windows 3.1 / DOS days, when only 256 characters* were available...quite a change.

Still browsing...also found this one: wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols (Was only a link on their unicode page, so I skimmed past it at first glance when browsing earlier.)

* - That "character" list included machine controls for printers and the like, including enter, delete, carriage return, etc. This is really taking me back...anybody here ever use a non-electric typewriter? >D

Where did you find the symbol was it somewhere else than here? because I don't see it in our list of options for posting.
Yes as a matter of fact I have used a non-electric type writer which I find odd considering I'm only 19,lol XD
Extremely frustrating sometimes it was it's a good thing I was excellent speller,I managed to get the job done for what I needed it for now I have no idea where it [email protected]@

Where did you find the symbol was it somewhere else than here? because I don't see it in our list of options for posting.
Yes as a matter of fact I have used a non-electric type writer which I find odd considering I'm only 19,lol XD
Extremely frustrating sometimes it was it's a good thing I was excellent speller,I managed to get the job done for what I needed it for now I have no idea where it [email protected]@

it is just a unicode character
that is one that displays in any browser
all those symbols I posted on the other page are unicode, you could copy and paste them into your text and they display on any foum, email, youtube comment, facebook status etc!
I often post characters on facebook as my status! ☺☼

I was curious, so despite the answer coming from a couple of nice people above, I went digging too. Unfortunately that page and Google seem to be unable to recognize the character itself in a search string. Would be nice if you could just copy & paste for a search. Windows Character Map also got me nowhere. Searching on Google for "hot springs," however, does pull up plenty of pics.

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* - That "character" list included machine controls for printers and the like, including enter, delete, carriage return, etc. This is really taking me back...anybody here ever use a non-electric typewriter? >D

I didn't even see an electric typewriter until my senior year of high school (1960) when we got a total of 2 electrics in our school. I still have a couple of the old uprights hanging around in the den, an Underwood and a Remington I believe. They still work. Remember the IBM Selectrics with the interchangeable balls?

* - That "character" list included machine controls for printers and the like, including enter, delete, carriage return, etc. This is really taking me back...anybody here ever use a non-electric typewriter? >D

Yo.

I really don't miss them, though. I hated the feeling of getting my finger slipped inside, right between the keys -- I was 9 or 10 when I got it -- and pulling the finger free was always a pain and half.